Labour
Conestoga Skilled Trades Campus will be among the largest trade schools in Canada
Conestoga Skilled Trades Campus will be among the largest trade schools in Canada
A building once owned by BlackBerry in Cambridge, Ont. is undergoing a retrofit appropriate for the times - a 335,000 square foot skilled trades campus of Conestoga College. With more than 150,000 square feet of trades shops and labs, the Conestoga Skill...
Labour
SWIT launching program to give tradeswomen the tools to succeed
Supporting Women in Trades (SWIT) is launching a National Leadership Development...
Labour
Unifor members elect Lana Payne as new president
TORONTO - Unifor says Lana Payne has been elected as the new president of Canada...
Labour
IUOE’s Gallagher urges swift decision on Nuvavut mine
OAKVILLE, ONT — Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUO...
Labour , Resource
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Conestoga Skilled Trades Campus will be among the largest trade schools in Canada
A building once owned by BlackBerry in Cambridge, Ont. is undergoing a retrofit...
Labour
SWIT launching program to give tradeswomen the tools to succeed
Supporting Women in Trades (SWIT) is launching a National Leadership Development...
Labour
Unifor members elect Lana Payne as new president
TORONTO - Unifor says Lana Payne has been elected as the new president of Canada...
Labour
IUOE’s Gallagher urges swift decision on Nuvavut mine
OAKVILLE, ONT — Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUO...
Labour , Resource
McNaughton optimistic feds will enhance tools to secure immigrant workers
Ontario’s labour and immigration minister says he’s optimistic the federal gover...
Labour
Canada’s unemployment remains at historic low of 4.9 per cent
OTTAWA - Canada’s unemployment rate stayed a historic low of 4.9 per cent in Jul...
Labour
Your Top DCN Headlines: Aug. 1 to 5
Your top Daily Commercial News headlines for this week include how unregulated d...
Government , Infrastructure , Labour , OH&S , Technology
New website aims to be a one-stop plethora of trades information
In order to address the demand for tradespeople in the industry in the coming ye...
Labour
Sheridan College to host WorldSkills Industrial Mechanics Competition
ONTARIO — Sheridan College will be hosting the Industrial Mechanics category for...
Labour
WSIB partners with Sault hospital and Axia Health
SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT.—The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has annou...
Labour , OH&S
Your top DCN headlines: July 18 to 22
Your top DCN headlines this week feature an analysis on whether megaprojects can...
Economic , Labour , Projects
OPSEU/SEFPO says 170 safety inspectors walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Thursday
TORONTO — The union representing safety inspectors at the Technical Standards an...
Labour
Social media, cost of living, generational change all disrupted 2022 Ontario ICI bargaining
Collective bargaining in Ontario’s ICI sector this spring proceeded fitfully, le...
Associations , Labour
Closing employment gap for Indigenous youth key to addressing labour shortage: Study
HALIFAX — Closing the employment gap for Indigenous youth in Atlantic Canada is...
Labour
O’Regan tours CCAT facility, discusses tackling labour shortages
Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan recently toured the College of Carpenters...
Government , Labour
Your top DCN headlines: July 11 to 15
Your top DCN headlines this week cover news LIUNA needs 30,000 more workers to t...
Economic , Labour , OH&S
EllisDon appoints new CFO and two new board members
MISSISSAUGA, ONT.—EllisDon Corporation has appointed a new chief financial offic...
Labour
Mancinelli says LIUNA needs 30,000 more workers
The rumblings about the potential for project postponements in Ontario due to co...
Government , Labour
Toronto labour shortages could result in project postponements: RLB
TORONTO—Property consulting firm Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) has released its mi...
Economic , Labour
Stanford defends productivity data in construction trades report
Labour economist Jim Stanford has responded to criticism of his October 2021 rep...
Economic , Labour
Inuit women test out the tools in three-week course
For many of the Inuit women taking a three-week course in Pangnirtung, Nunavut o...
Labour
Ford to raise labour issues at premiers’ meeting in hope of pressing feds
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is planning to raise immigration and skilled...
Government , Labour
McFarling appointed chair of WSIB health and safety committee
TORONTO—Sean McFarling was recently appointed to the position of chair of the Wo...
Labour , OH&S
CP announces new deals with engineers, conductors
MINNEAPOLIS—Canadian Pacific has announced collective agreements have been ratif...
Economic , Labour , US News
Your top DCN headlines: July 4 to 8
Your top DCN headlines this week feature video captured of a worker dangling fro...
Economic , Labour , OH&S , Technology
Canadian women thriving in fire protection industry
NORTH YORK, ONT. — Women are increasingly finding rewarding careers in the fire...
Labour
Skills Ontario hosts camps for youth this summer
TORONTO — Skills Ontario is hosting summer camps for youth across the province e...
Labour
CN strike to end early Tuesday after union agrees to binding arbitration
MONTREAL — A two-week strike at Canadian National Railway Co. is ending after th...
Labour
CCA partners with CAF on new apprenticeship program
OTTAWA — The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) has announced it is partner...
Labour
Hammer Heads program approaches milestone of 600th graduate
Ontario’s Hammer Heads program will soon reach an impressive milestone this year...
Labour
BREAKING: Ontario glaziers ratify ICI deal, end strike
Glaziers working in Ontario’s ICI sector have ratified a three-year contract pro...
Labour
Ontario painters, tapers call off strike in the ICI sector
Painters and tapers working in Ontario’s ICI sector have called off their strike...
Labour
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Condolences pour in over those lost in Ajax trench collapse
The workers who were injured and died in the trench collapse on an Ajax, Ont. co...
OH&S
UPDATE: Rescue crews recover two bodies from construction site trench collapse in Ajax
AJAX, Ont. — The bodies of two men have been recovered from a construction site...
OH&S
BREAKING: Hydro One investigating crane on barge as cause of Toronto power outage
TORONTO — Toronto Police and Toronto Hydro reported a large power outage in down...
Infrastructure
Health Canada issues recall for DeWalt saw due to laceration hazard
OTTAWA — Health Canada and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission...
Economic
Gordie Howe bridge deck and access ramps taking shape
The first signs of roadway connecting the two towers of the new Gordie Howe Inte...
Infrastructure , US News
Bruce Power’s $13B refurbishment nears next phase of completion
When the project is as big as the Bruce Power nuclear reactor refurbishments, it...
Infrastructure
New website aims to be a one-stop plethora of trades information
In order to address the demand for tradespeople in the industry in the coming ye...
Labour
UPDATE: Workers injured in scaffolding collapse at Courtice jobsite
COURTICE, ONT. — Days after two workers died and two others were injured in a tr...